VIEW ROA 966

966-0408

Three Correlates of the Typological Frequency of Quantity-Insensitive Stress Systems

Authors

Max Bane University of Chicago <bane@uchicago.edu> [Details]
Jason Riggle U Chicago <jriggle@uchicago.edu> [Details]

Comment

Draft of version to appear in the 2008 Proceedings of The Tenth Workshop of the Association for Computational Linguistics' Special Interest Group in Morphology and Phonology

Length

10 pp.

Files

PDF 186kb

Abstract



We examine the typology of quantity-insensitive (QI) stress systems and ask to what extent an existing optimality theoretic model of QI stress can predict
 the observed typological frequencies of stress patterns. We find three
 significant correlates of pattern attestation and frequency: the trigram
 entropy of a pattern, the degree to which it is ``confusable'' with other
 patterns predicted by the model, and the number of constraint rankings that
 specify the pattern.

Keywords

typology, typological frequency, stress, quantity-insensitive, accent, entropy, r-volume

Area

Phonology, Computation

Type

Conference Proceedings Chapter